Thank you! I'm about to teach _Never Let Me Go_, and that terrific quotation really speaks to that novel's interest in trash and discards and second hand goods.

Also the great cow novel, if that’s a category

Thank you! You’ve given me the content For a slide next semester !

I am in Cambridge, MA right now, but even so it would be useful if I could remember where I packed away all my gloves in the spring.

A different kind of "black page" that has always fascinated me - the ink blot in Ignatius Sancho's Letters - Samcho was a big fan of Sterne

Fantastic! thank you!

Whose work is this?

I think I want to teach it!

The earliest substantial snowfall in more than half a century.

New to me, but I wonder whether it is indeed a grammar reference--and that the formula might in fact imply "in all his tenses", w/ the idea being that conjugating a verb involves making a complete sweep of things. So, as someone else posted, the sea man must be punished in past, present, and future?

Not at all: aren't we supposed to start thinking along those lines? (Reading volume 2, I myself got obsessed with her decision not to travel via air vs. rail.)

Is this David Townsend from the U of Toronto ? That is cool !

Likewise!

Netflix's UK poster is so different from its US poster: "Let us be monsters together" is quite distinct from "Only monsters play God."
The difference in emphasis is interesting.

An oldie but a goodie: Patricia Parker’s Inescapable Romance